Evaluation Question 1

We decided to use the effect of having an oxymoron as our film title,"Wrapped up Revenge" (shown below), as it reflects on the fact that our film both challenges and conforms to conventions of horror film for it's opening sequence. Our title also reflects on the plot of the story, "Wrapped up" is based on the fact that it's her birthday and on birthdays presents are 'wrapped up' and then given. Whereas, "Revenge" has been used to reflect on her getting her revenge on those who have bullied her. Thus, because the plot contradicts we decided to have an oxymoron title which too contradicted. The horror film "Carrie" (1976) has a similar plot to our film, it is based on a girl with powers who gets bullied in school but is pushed too far on a special night and decides to get her revenge back.

In our film there are several shots (shown above) and effects that help to make it stand out and keep out audience involves. We decided to use the effect of having a pitch black background as our character's voice over is heard. The use of this helped to reflect on out characters personality, such as her being dark and gothic but also secretive and shy (not wanting to be seen). This too reflects on the plot and title of our story as our main character has a contradicting personality. The scene of the hallways is used to show her feeling isolated and left out as none of the girls in the scene is seen to say 'hi' or wave. The first image we get of our character is her in school, where we used an editing effect of 'slow motion' as this is when our character is finally revealed. We decided to use slow motion as the music is heard slowing down is used to reflect on how our character is feeling inside, sad and lonely - reflecting on her emotions. 

One of the special effects we used was on the scene where our character is seen walking out of school after having enough of everything, as she walks we can clearly see that there is no one by her side, however, as the camera changes into a medium shot, another character suddenly appears out of nowhere who we later reveal is a ghost. The use of this effect was to make our audience jump and get more engaged with the film. We then have our character walking through a park gates which starts off with an establishing shot to show where she is and the surroundings of it. As she walks through the park we decided to have someone following her, this was done by using the effect of a hand-held camera and walking closely behind her. After, we use the sound of 'heavy weird breathing', having the camera moving in the movement of the swing and the special effect of a blur. This was to help our audience realise that the person is following her is not human - and also to frighten our audience.